The defence entailed a presentation and debate with the audience on my thesis titled "Opening up: The Council's changing discourse on transparency of the European Union". It deals with the changing attitude towards opening the administration up for the wider public. Within a period of twenty years, the Council's attitude towards transparency has changed dramatically. The thesis seeks to address the questions of how and why this happened.
The thesis was awarded an 8.5 out of 10, and means the end of the two-year master programme Research in Public Administration and Organizational Science, a special research programme offered jointly by the Utrecht School of Governance, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Tilburg University. If nothing strange happens, I'll graduate from this master cum laude.
The master also marks the end of seven years' study, first at Warwick (UK) and the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain), later at Utrecht University. It will surely not mean the end of academic research though, as I intend to return to the Utrecht School of Governance after holidays for further research into the development of transparency in the EU.
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